Today was a most interesting day and a harbinger of what is to come on our trip to Chiriqui tomorrow. These books are used at health centers to make it possible for Ngobe women to communicate to health workers there. It's a cross-cultural challenge when the women speak only
Ngäbere and the health care professionals do not, so the UN has funded a project to create a book (shown above)
Tomorrow I will go with Lydia Toppin, a professor here, and her students to Chiriqui to meet with Ngobe women and to do a very preliminary needs assessment for a grant she and a number of colleagues are putting together. Elba is coming too and I'm very excited!
Stay Tuned!
(P.S., it's also my daughter Anna Rachel's birthday today!
